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...would expect Johnson, having most recently appeared in A Lion in Winter, a piece filled with dry humor and witty barbs that he handled quite effectively, to flourish with Pseudolus’s sarcasm; nevertheless, Johnson seemed to gloss over a number of moments that could have been brilliant...
...online groceries do have a future. Jupiter Media Metrix still expects e-grocers to flourish into an $11 billion business, ringing up 2% of total grocery sales, by 2006. But the future is more likely to arrive at your local supermarket than Webvan-style 100,000-sq.-ft. distribution centers. Safeway and Albertsons are preparing to roll out what is known as the "store-pick" model--you order online, and a professional shopper (O.K., a teenager with a produce chart) picks out the goods at your nearest supermarket, as opposed to a dedicated warehouse. Then you either get same...
...those workers who want a more balanced life." Management will be reinvented. "Work will remain in tomorrow's enterprise and will still need to be managed. But people will increasingly manage themselves," Donkin writes. Less predictably, he argues that barriers between work and leisure will blur, cooperatives will flourish and a new work ethic will develop based on personal choice and the needs of society. Given current Western views about work - broadly defined as "living for work" - and Donkin's nirvana in which toil offers the hope of something better, the question arises of how society will move from...
Margery Winters is a Connecticut resident who has turned over a new leaf. Winters, who works with groups trying to save Long Island Sound from pollutants often generated by fertilizers, recently loosened the reins on her two acres. In one section, she has let a reckless meadow flourish where grass once stood at attention. When a group of 600 garden-club members visited her property on a tour, it was not the well-tended flower beds but the meadow that generated the most excitement. "Many of the women just stood in the middle of it," she recalls. A visitor said...
...Contacts, good talk, wide range of friendships flourish when men live in a community and take their meals in the same dining room," he had said...